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Letter from Joseph Bosworth
Add. MS a/201/58 · Item · 29 Mar. 1864
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20 Beaumont Street, Oxford - Bosworth has eight thousand pounds he wishes to dispose of to promote Anglo Saxon Literature. Could he meet Whewell to discuss this subject when he visits Cambridge.

Letter from Joseph Bosworth
Add. MS a/201/57 · Item · [c 1858-1859]
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The Lodge, Islip, near Oxford - JB is to be a candidate for the Anglo-Saxon Professorship at Oxford University. Although he has the support of the Heads of Houses, the election is by congregation, in which Fellows of Colleges preponderate, and thereforeread more

Letter from Joseph Bosworth
Add. MS a/201/56 · Item · 20 Mar. 1858
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The Lodge, Islip, near Oxford - Presents Trinity College Library - through WW - a copy of King Alfred's Description of Europe, Africa etc [A translation by JB of King Alfred the Great, a Description of Europe and the Voyages of Ohthere and Walfstan 1855].read more

Letter from Joseph Bosworth
Add. MS a/201/55 · Item · 15 Dec. 1852
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Sudbury Rectory, Uttoxeter - The Queen has requested, through Archdeacon Tattam, an authentic memoir of the late John Camden Neild. Does WW know anything about his career at Cambridge - JB thinks he was at Trinity College. The Works of King Alfred theread more